Martin Tsai
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‘Poolman’ Review: Chris Pine’s Directorial Debut Is a Kooky Noir That Fails to Stand Out
Toronto 2023: The supporting cast is too good for Pine and Ian Gotler’s weak script
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‘Seven Veils’ Review: Atom Egoyan Tells a Complex Story of Authorship
Toronto 2023: Amanda Seyfried makes the film’s opaque story more accessible
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‘North Star’ Review: Kristin Scott Thomas’ Directorial Debut Is a Disjointed Family Drama
Toronto 2023: Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller and Emily Beecham fail to sell themselves as three sisters with familial dysfunction
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‘Next Goal Wins’ Review: Abysmal Soccer Team Makes for Crowd-Pleasing Comedy From Taika Waititi
Toronto Film Festival 2023: Waititi’s Maori ancestry enables him to find comedy in American Samoan culture without being offensive or disparaging
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‘Carlos’ Review: Santana Frontman Serves Up an Above-Average Rock Doc
Tribeca 2023: Rudy Valdez’s feature tries to look at the many facets of the famed Mexican musician
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David Fincher Talks ‘Alien 3’ Mistakes, Career Evolution With Steven Soderbergh: ‘I Came Out of a Truly F–d Up Situation’
Tribeca: “I’d never start something that didn’t have a script that I didn’t believe in,” the filmmaker said during the hourlong talk with his filmmaking friend
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‘Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music’ Review: A Powerful Film Not For the Uninitiated
Tribeca 2023: The documentary comes from Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, the Oscar-winning filmmakers of “The Times of Harvey Milk”
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‘Stan Lee’ Review: Marvel Pays Tribute to Its Comic Book Legend
Tribeca 2023: David Gelb’s Disney+ documentary spotlights Lee’s career and creations
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‘Common Ground’ Review: An Environmental Documentary That Misses the Point
Tribeca 2023: “Kiss the Ground” filmmakers Josh and Rebecca Tickell return with a film about regenerative agriculture
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‘To Live and Die and Live’ Review: Alienated Filmmaker Can’t Go Home Again in Grim Drama
Sundance 2023: Writer-director Qasim Basir leaves a lot of promising plot threads and character elements on the table in his latest feature
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‘Glass Onion’ Review: ‘Knives Out’ Sequel Is a Quick-Witted but Uninspired Whodunit
Daniel Craig returns as detective Benoit Blanc, with Edward Norton, Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom Jr. and Janelle Monáe also joining the cast
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‘The Inspection’ Review: Military Coming-of-Age Drama Feels Like an Instant Queer Classic
Documentarian Elegance Bratton brings assured filmmaking skills and life experience to this powerful narrative debut
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‘The Kingdom Exodus’ Review: Lars von Trier Goes Full Meta With the Return of His Creepy Hospital Drama
Like David Lynch before him, von Trier waited a quarter-century to return to his disturbing TV project
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‘There There’ Review: Andrew Bujalski Leaps Backward to Mumblecore-Via-Zoom
After the breakthrough of “Support the Girls,” Bujalski’s experiment with COVID-19 cinema starts strong then goes off the rails
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‘Raymond & Ray’ Review: Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke Are Brothers in Contrived Family Drama
The film from writer-director Rodrigo Garcia starts out strong but then becomes a slog